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<\/p>\nSam Thompson’s mother revealed the king of the jungle was too cool for school after he was suspended ‘a couple of times’ and said university would be a waste.<\/p>\n
Karen Thompson let slip the I’m A Celeb star’s wild antics as a teenager when she appeared on her son’s podcast, Staying Relevant, on December 4.<\/p>\n
Chatting to Sam’s best friend, Pete Wicks, 35, and his girlfriend, Zara McDermott, 26, Karen said he was suspended from school for getting drunk and falling ill from too much vodka.<\/p>\n
During the podcast, host Pete read out questions sent in from their listeners. ‘What is Sam’s most embarrassing moment?’ one listener asked.<\/p>\n
Karen said: ‘He did get in trouble at school. He was suspended a couple of times, but his tutors or house masters used to say, “you know it is always other people who would make him do the naughty stuff”.’\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Sam Thompson ‘s mother revealed the King Of The Jungle was too cool for school after he was suspended ‘a couple of times’ and said university would be a waste<\/p>\n
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Sam’s mother Karen let slip the I’m A Celeb star’s wild antics as a teenager when she appeared on her son’s podcast, Stay Relevant, on December 4<\/p>\n
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Chatting to Sam’s best friend, Pete Wicks , 35, and his girlfriend, Zara McDermott , 26, Karen said he was suspended from school for getting drunk and falling ill from too much vodka<\/p>\n
‘He was suspended because he got so drunk on vodka that somebody had smuggled in. He was really ill and in the sun and everything else, yeah, so drinking vodka,’ she added.<\/p>\n
Pete joked: ‘ He got suspended for being a drunk, the amount of abuse he gives me. I didn’t realise it was because he is a reformed drunk.’<\/p>\n
Karen said: ‘The problem was that everybody else, of course, drinking it was perfectly OK, but because Sam obviously wasn’t used to drinking, he got so ill.<\/p>\n
‘He got really, really ill, so they had to take him off and be sent home and everything else.’<\/p>\n
But alcohol seems to have a running theme with education when it comes to Sam, because his mother also revealed that her son said sending him to university would be a waste.<\/p>\n
Pete asked Karen: ‘Do you ever think what a waste of money on the education given now what he does for a living is TikTok?’<\/p>\n
She responded: ‘Yes, but seriously, all credit to Sam, when it was time to choose Universities, he literally sat us down and said, ‘Ok erm, if you want to waste your money on three years of me at university drinking beer and eating pizzas and basically having a laugh for three years. I can tell you now you are going to be wasting your money, and it’s entirely up to you.”<\/p>\n
‘Nothing like a good bit of honesty.’<\/p>\n
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Pete asked Karen: ‘Do you ever think what a waste of money on the education given now what he does for a living is TikTok?’ she said yes as he told her that she would be wasting her money sending him to universit because he will drink beer and having a laugh\u00a0<\/p>\n
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This came just before Karen broke down in tears as she gushed about how ‘unbelievably proud’ she was of her son as he took on the challenging TV show<\/p>\n
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Speaking on the Hits Radio Breakfast Show on December, 6, presenter Fleur East showed Sam’s mother an emotional pre-recorded message from the former Made In Chelsea star<\/p>\n
Pete joked: ‘He used the trust fund to become a TikTok bum.’<\/p>\n
Karen persisted that Sam had no trust fund, but Pete had a hard time believing her. He said: ‘We don’t believe that, we don’t believe that’.<\/p>\n
Sam may have gotten into some trouble at school, but he was still the kind-hearted spirit we know today, as Karen revealed, he has always loved being a people-pleaser.<\/p>\n
When Pete asked what Sam was like as a child, she said: ‘He would always have to have something. He was never good at sitting still.<\/p>\n
‘He was like a little puppy then as he is now. He loves people, he always did, but he would always walk around the house picking things up, always things that were sort of wand-like, or sword-like or whatever and just walk around.<\/p>\n
Pete chipped in: ‘Literally, he is 31 and he hasn’t changed.’<\/p>\n
This came just before Karen broke down in tears as she gushed about how ‘unbelievably proud’ she was of her son as he took on the challenging TV show.<\/p>\n
She said she was ‘not enjoying’ the ITV show because she found it really ‘nerve-wracking’ watching the reality TV personality on screen.<\/p>\n
Speaking on the Hits Radio Breakfast Show on December, 6, presenter Fleur East showed Sam’s mother an emotional pre-recorded message from the former Made In Chelsea star.<\/p>\n
Sam said: ‘Hello mum, you can’t reply because I’m not actually here. I’m in the jungle but I just wanted to say that I miss you and I hope you’re proud of me.<\/p>\n
‘As you know very well, I’ve wanted to do this show for a very long time and I’m in there, we’re living the dream, or I’ve been booted out, but I still managed to do it for a little bit of time.<\/p>\n
‘I just wanted to send this little message just to say how much I love you and how much I miss you and I hope I’ve done you proud. Love you loads.’<\/p>\n
Holding back tears, Karen said: ‘OMG, I’m going to cry. You shouldn’t have shown me that, it’s really horrible being a parent. I hope people do like him. Not everyone likes everyone, but we are all so unbelievably proud.<\/p>\n
‘From my father, who I don’t think has ever watched the show before, and my mother says, ‘Oh my goodness, your father goes round everywhere telling everybody’.<\/p>\n
The clip was uploaded to HitsRadioUK Instagram account, alongside the caption: ‘@samthompsonuk left his mum @karenthompson4 a little message behind before heading into the Jungle’.<\/p>\n
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The clip was uploaded to HitsRadioUK Instagram account, alongside the caption: ‘@samthompsonuk left his mum @karenthompson4 a little message behind before heading into the Jungle’<\/p>\n